Patents by Inventor Donald R. Hully

Donald R. Hully has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 3935650
    Abstract: Scholastic test grading apparatus uses a circular answer sheet having a circular series of angularly-spaced, numbered rows of radially-spaced answer spaces on which the student marks his answers to correspondingly numbered questions by blacking-in selected ones of the answer spaces as with soft pencil lead. The sheet also carries punch locating indicia opposite each number. The answer sheet is graded by pressing it, in a selected orientation, against a printed circuit board which has formed thereon a pattern of electrical gaps corresponding to the correct-answer positions on the answer sheet. The blacked-in pencil lead blacking material in such positions bridges the electrical gaps to close electrical circuits to a circle of lamps, which light up to show both how many and which answers are correct. A question label disk placed in the circle of lamps identifies the questions or groups of questions indicated by the several lamps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 1974
    Date of Patent: February 3, 1976
    Inventor: Donald R. Hully